Community Support Swamps Port Jervis Family After House Fire
Boxes of diapers, school supplies, and toys keep piling up at Briana Austin’s grandmother’s house in Port Jervis. People who know the Austin family and strangers from as far as Monroe stopped by to deliver words of comfort and money.
Briana’s two younger children, 4-year-old Weston and 2-year-old Autumn, are running around the house, toys in their hands and big smiles on their faces, apparently not thinking at all about the house fire they escaped days ago just a few blocks away.
“It’s great how many people are really kind out there in the world, and it takes something like this to happen to see,” Briana’s grandmother Vivian Van Orden told The Epoch Times….